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43Stephan Schmid. Finalursachen in der frühen Neuzeit: Eine Untersuchung der Transformation teleologischer Erklärungen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011. Pp. xii+410. $165.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (1): 179-182. 2013.Book review.
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10OccurrentsIn Katherine Munn & Barry Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Ontos. pp. 255-284. 2008.
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125Holistic arguments for individualismIn Georg Meggle (ed.), Social Facts and Collective Intentionality. Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical research, Dr. Haensel-hohenhausen. 2002.In this essay, I will sketch my view of the connections between some methodological assumptions in social philosophy, namely those of individualism, holism, and collectivism. My interest in doing so is to outline a rough conceptual landscape, into which an approach of collective actions and intentions can be placed.
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154Doing and Being. An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics ThetaPhilosophical Quarterly 66 (263): 411-414. 2016.Review of Jonathan Beere's book.
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19What is formal ontology?In Katherine Munn & Barry Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Ontos. pp. 39-56. 2008.
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110Science, conscience, consciousnessHistory of the Human Sciences 23 (3): 15-28. 2010.Descartes’ metaphysics lays the foundation for the special sciences, and the notion of consciousness (conscientia) belongs to metaphysics rather than to psychology. I argue that as a metaphysical notion, ‘consciousness’ refers to an epistemic version of moral conscience. As a consequence, the activity on which science is based turns out to be conscientious thought. The consciousness that makes science possible is a double awareness: the awareness of what one is thinking, of what one should be do…Read more
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